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Joel T. Heinen1 \*, Nabin Baral2 , Prakash K. Paudel3 and Jay P. Sah4

1 Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

2 University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, Washington, USA

3 Center for Conservation Biology, Kathmandu Institute for Applied Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal

4 Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

\*Address all correspondence to: heinenj@fiu.edu

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